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Complexity Drives Costs: A Look Inside BYOD and Azure Data Lakes

Jet Global

That stands for “bring your own database,” and it refers to a model in which core ERP data are replicated to a separate standalone database used exclusively for reporting. For more powerful, multidimensional OLAP-style reporting, however, it falls short. OLAP reporting has traditionally relied on a data warehouse.

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Navigating Data Entities, BYOD, and Data Lakes in Microsoft Dynamics

Jet Global

Its solution was to replicate data from the production database, using data entities, into a traditional relational database. Microsoft referred to this approach as “bring your own database” (BYOD). There is an established body of practice around creating, managing, and accessing OLAP data (known as “cubes”).

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Data Modeling 301 for the cloud: data lake and NoSQL data modeling and design

erwin

For NoSQL, data lakes, and data lake houses—data modeling of both structured and unstructured data is somewhat novel and thorny. This blog is an introduction to some advanced NoSQL and data lake database design techniques (while avoiding common pitfalls) is noteworthy. Data Modeling.

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How gaming companies can use Amazon Redshift Serverless to build scalable analytical applications faster and easier

AWS Big Data

Flexible and easy to use – The solutions should provide less restrictive, easy-to-access, and ready-to-use data. A data hub contains data at multiple levels of granularity and is often not integrated. It differs from a data lake by offering data that is pre-validated and standardized, allowing for simpler consumption by users.

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Understanding Data Entities in Microsoft Dynamics 365

Jet Global

They can sit inside your D365 F&SCM instance or in a separate Azure space, referred to as Bring Your Own Database (BYOD), which stores the data entities in Azure but in an SQL format that is accessible to reporting. Reference (e.g., It helps simplify and speed up data management and analytics efforts in D365 F&SCM.

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Prevent Customer Churn: Customer Retention in the Transition to Microsoft D365 F&SCM

Jet Global

In this respect, we often hear references to “switching costs” and “stickiness.” As Microsoft focuses its reporting strategy around Power BI and Azure Data Lake services, Dynamics partners should carefully consider the implications of starting down the path that Microsoft is recommending.

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Why Business Intelligence is Top of Mind for CFOs for 2022

Jet Global

The term “ business intelligence ” (BI) has been in common use for several decades now, referring initially to the OLAP systems that drew largely upon pre-processed information stored in data warehouses. As technology has evolved, BI has grown steadily more powerful, affordable, and accessible.